Southern Eastern Sudanic languages

Southern Eastern Sudanic
Kir-Abbaian
(undemonstrated)
Geographic distribution	Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
Linguistic classification	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern Sudanic
Subdivisions	Eastern Jebel Temein Daju Surmic Nilotic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

The Southern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern n Sudanic, En Sudanic or Kir-Abbaian ^[1] languages form one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages in the classification of Bender (2000). It is rejected as an established group in Starostin (2015).

The Southern Eastern Sudanic languages are characterized by having an /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have a /k/. The best known Southern Eastern Sudanic language group, as well as the largest, is Nilotic, which includes such languages as Maasai.

Southern Eastern Sudanic roots

Bender (1996) offers fifteen possible En Sudanic innovations. ^[2]

English	Proto-En-Sudanic	Surmic	Eastern Jebel	Temein	Daju	Nilotic
fire	*ma(a)(tt)	Majang maaɗ	Eastern Jebel maʔa, mɔɔ	---	Daju *maas	Nilotic *mat, *mac
neck	*ŋOr-	Majang ŋool	Eastern Jebel ŋal(g)	Temein ŋalo	Daju *ŋaas-	Nilotic *ŋut
white-yellow	*pVr	Murle fɔɔr	Gaam bɔɔr	Temein fʊr	----	Dinka-Nuer b(i)or
steal	*(a)gOl	Majang agal	Gaam gəəɬ	Temein proper agul	Logorik eguxo	Nilotic *kuOl

References

1. History and the Testimony of Language. p. 160.
2. Bender, M. L. (1996). "Genetic sub-grouping of East Sudanic". Afrikanische Arbeitspapiere. 45: 139–150.

• Bender, M. L. (2000). "Nilo-Saharan". In Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek (eds.). African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.